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Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
08/27/23
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Q: My wife and I plan to adopt a child under the age of 9 from foster care. We have just started taking the classes. My wife has a 9-year-old from a previous relationship, and we want to do everything we can to prepare him in advance for this adoption. Any help is appreciated.
Additional Resources:
- Blending Children by Birth and Adoption
- Suggested Books for Preparing Your Child for the Adoption of a Sibling
- Free Course: The Impact of Fostering & Adopting on Kids Already in the Family
This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
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Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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Problematic Sexual Behavior
August 23, 2023
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Do you worry about what is normal in your child's sexual development? Join us to talk with Roy Van Tassell , a Licensed Professional Counselor in Oklahoma and Director of Trauma and Evidence-based Interventions for Centene Health. He co-chairs the National Child Traumatic Stress Networks’ subcommittee on children with problem sexual behaviors.
Warning: We will be using anatomically correct words and talking about sex, so if this offends you or triggers you, you may want to skip this podcast.
In this episode, we cover:
Typical Sexual Development / Play
- What is typical sexual development in children as they age?
- What type of sexual play is considered “normal?”
- How should parents manage a child’s natural sexual development?
Problematic Sexual Behaviors
- What are Problem Sexual Behaviors in Children?
- What causes kids and youth to act in socially unacceptable or destructive sexual ways? What factors influence the development of these behaviors?
- Child vulnerabilities
- Behavior problems
- Emotional difficulties
- Developmental delays
- Low impulse control
- Family vulnerabilities
- Poor supervision
- Single caregiver
- Modeling of coercion
- Harsh parenting practices
- Physical abuse
- Domestic violence
- Modeling of sexuality
- Sexual abuse
- Modeling/exposure
- Nudity or poor family boundaries
- How common are problematic sexual behaviors?
- Suggestions for professionals and parents and how to respond to behaviors.
- What should parents and caregivers do?
- Rules for younger kids
- How effective is therapy?
- How to find a therapist?
- What training have they had in this area?
- Child development expertise (including sexual development)
Resources:
- Taking Action booklets (two booklets) – for children with problematic sexual behaviors (age 12 and younger) and one for 13+
- Resources at the National Center on Sexual Behavior of Youth – really good resources for caregivers and parents.
- National Center for Exploited Children—for kids to understand safety—teaching them safety skills to protect their own body
- Amaze.org—videos for children
- National Child Traumatic Stress Network
- A.J.’s Story— A Book About Not OK Touches
This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
Please leave us a rating or review RateThisPodcast.com/creatingafamily
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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Coming to Terms with Infertility Grief Before You Adopt or Foster
August 30, 2023
•48m
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Are you thinking about stopping infertility treatment and trying to adopt or foster? Join us to talk with Carole LieberWilkins,a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has specialized in reproductive medicine, adoption, and family-building options since 1986, and is the co-author of the book, Let’s Talk About Egg Donation. Carole serves on the Advisory Board of the US Donor Conceived Council, and is an active member of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine Mental Health Professional Group. She is also a mom through adoption and egg donation.
In this episode, we cover:
- Adoptive parenting is the same as, and very different from, genetic parenting. Ways in which raising adopted children is different. Ways in which it is the same.
- Fostering has some significant differences from genetic parenting, including adopting from foster care.
- What are the losses of infertility?
- How to know when you are ready to stop fertility treatments and move to adoption or fostering? What are the signs of readiness?
- The myth of needing to do everything that you can to become pregnant before moving to adoption or third-party reproduction.
- How have the advances in infertility medicine changed the landscape of moving to adoption or fostering?
- Accepting Plan B without making the child feel like second best.
- How to know when you are ready to foster or adopt from foster care.
- How to grieve the loss of the biological child that you never had?
- Tips for coping with the losses of infertility.
- Coping with the unknowns of adoption or fostering and lack of control.
- Adopting while staying in treatment.
- Should you go back into infertility treatment after having adopted a child?
- How to find a mental health professional that specializes in infertility.
This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
Please leave us a rating or review RateThisPodcast.com/creatingafamily
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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